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The Green Goddess

"Hindu Raja Traps Girl Flyer. Three Men Battle for Girl."

An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.

Top Cast

  • George Arliss

    George Arliss

    The Raja

  • Ralph Forbes

    Ralph Forbes

    Dr. Traherne

  • H.B. Warner

    H.B. Warner

    Major Crespin

  • Alice Joyce

    Alice Joyce

    Lucilla

  • Ivan F. Simpson

    Ivan F. Simpson

    Watkins

  • Reginald Sheffield

    Reginald Sheffield

    Lieutenant Cardew

  • Betty Boyd

    Betty Boyd

    An Ayah

  • Nigel De Brulier

    Nigel De Brulier

    Temple Priest

  • David Tearle

    David Tearle

    High Priest

Overview

An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.

Rating

4.9 / 10
15 Reviews
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Jun 6, 2022

    I was frankly rather disappointed with this. George Arliss is the scheming "Raja" who manages to capitalise on an aeroplane crash that delivers three British citizens into his hands just as the fate of three of his siblings is about to be settled in neighbouring India. His subjects believe that it was the hand of the benevolent "Green Goddess" who has delivered this opportunity for retribution to their Raja, so our threesome begin to look doomed - unless they can use the radio to summon help. It's a very stage bound presentation, this, and Arliss - usually quite good as the menacing, plotting baddie, is distinctly off-form. The production is really rather basic - not so much the technology (though the sound appears to have been recorded in a tin bucket) but just in the limiting aspirations of director Alfred Green. The film is just all a bit flat, for what seems like quite a long 75 minutes, and the ending is somewhat of a let down. Pity - could have been fun!

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